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My recent post on T-Nation

My limited knowledge of the whole "cholesterol issue" is this... High carb/sugar diets are very inflamatory to the arteries (high blood glucose/high insulin response). The body uses cholesterol to create a "band-aid" over the inflamed areas within the arteries. If you cause enough inflamation by eating junk or even many "healthy" foods/sugars, you build up too many cholesterol "band-aids" and start to clog the artery with what SHOULD be a harmless protective response. It's kinda like running through a thicket of thorn bushes. You get cut to shreds right? So you apply several band-aids on your wounds so they can heal. The problem occurs when you keep on running through the thorns and keep piling up the band-aids. Soon enough you appear to have a "band-aid issue" but the truth is you need to quit running through the thorn bushes (quit eating junk carbs). Doctors who advise patients to cut/medically reduce cholesterol levels equals them telling you to cut your band-aid usage. It's merely a RESULT not the cause. And from what I can see, rather harmful. Make any sense?

Chris Shugart @ T-Nation.com

The root word of intoxication is "toxic," which means poisonous. So being drunk is basically the feeling you get from being poisoned to a point that causes physical damage but not death - which can happen when enough is consumed. Anyway, the more I think about it, the more I think, "I don't eat fried food and I don't smoke, so why should I drink?"

Lab rats

There was a study of rats I read about. A number of caged-since-birth rats were forced to hang from a wire. A number of wild, free rats were forced to do the same. The caged rats held on, hanging on for dear life until they dropped into thier cage. The wild rats held on for only a moment, pulled themselves up (like a chin-up)onto the wire and walked across the wire to freedom.

We can learn a lot from rats!

Art DeVany

If you are still doing cereal, grow up. It is better to skip breakfast than to eat that hazardous waste."

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Weekend carb-up bars

1 1/2 cups of rolled oates 5 scoops of potein powder 1 pinch of nutmeg 5 table spoons of dried raisins. 1 cup of apple sauce - no added sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla disolved in applesauce Mix dry ingredients mix wet ingredients add wet to dry spray cake dish spread mix in dish cook at 375 for 30 mins let cool cut in 5 bars.

From a woman who lives in Quebec and calls herself "nlmain".